Due to a variety of circumstances, I was unable to blog this past week. I will try to regain my consistency moving forward.

Gerard Baker is still confident about America's power, even though many are trying to write her off as a result of the setbacks in Iraq.

Victor Davis Hanson, as usual, gives us his historian's perspective on the barbaric violence perpetrated by the jihadists.

Fred Barnes reports on the GOP's poor prospects in what he calls, the "blowout belt".

Sometime in the next few days I will post an explanation of my revised thinking about the Iraq War. Later, probably the weekend before the election, I will post my predictions, for whatever they are worth. Which might not be much.